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		<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div class="mw-parser-output"><p>an image channel containing a mask or selection.
An <b>Alpha channel</b> is an additional image channel just like the red, green or blue channel. It can contain any information in form of a grayscale image but commonly it is used to store a selection or a mask. 
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<ul><li>Black alpha channel pixels usually stand for masked, invisible or unselected pixels in the main image.</li>
<li>White alpha channel pixels stand for unmasked, visible or selected pixels.</li>
<li>Gray alpha channel pixels stand for more or less translucent pixels according to the brightness of gray.</li></ul>
<p>Both <a href="Enblend.html" title="Enblend">enblend</a> and smartblend<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/Smartblend">[*]</a> use the alpha channel to determine seam position when blending,
see the how to use enblend for patching zenith and nadir images<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/How_to_use_enblend_for_patching_zenith_and_nadir_images">[*]</a> tutorial for details.
</p><p>More information on wikipedia:alpha channel<a class="external" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/alpha_channel">[*]</a> page
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